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More recently, critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, " Scarlet Street is a bleak psychological film noir that has the same leading actors as his 1944 film The Woman in the Window.

It sets a long-standing trend of a criminal not punished for his crime ; this is the first Hollywood film where that happened ... The Edward G. Robinson character is viewed as an ordinary man who is influenced by an evil couple who take advantage of his vulnerability and lead him down an amoral road where he eventually in a passionate moment loses his head and commits murder.

Chris's imagination can no longer save him from his dreadful existence, and his complete downfall comes about as the talented artist loses track of reality and his dignity.